In the year 2050 - future predictions

Paid Blogger will be a growing job position.  In the future one will question the positions and statements of friends and family by asking "are you being paid to say that?"  Views and opinions will be bought and sold by friends and family just like Mary Kay and Tupperware is today.

Simplified English (with all the odd spellings and useless articles removed) will be the global language. Forget about Esperanto.

The traditional university system will collapse.  The idea you need to go to a room and sit under bad lighting in uncomfortable seats with distracting people and straining to hear/see a presenter is already at and end.  Better quality presentations on almost any subject are on Youtube.  Recorded presentation can be paused, replayed, upgraded and continuously rated and enhanced by people who are good presenters, unlike the average college professor is.  Interaction with the teacher will be just as it is today, with the TA.  Only the TA will be mostly replying to comments on the video, so he won't be wasting time answering the same questions again and again.  Universities are half way to this model now, only in future it'll be free, and campuses will close.  Students will watch Youtube in the comfort of their homes, anywhere in the world, and be able to "attend class" whenever it suits their schedule.

Diplomas will be replaced with a certificate system like CCNA, you'll be getting collections of certificates to get jobs.  Not longer will 90% of getting a higher degree be about working university politics, that'll be gone like fluorescent lighting, 100 seat  lecture halls and hard wooden chairs.

The FBI formally changes its name to Face Book Investigation as all real crime starts with drama on Facebook.